My phone says silence notifications to everyone I text

You have a focus running.

Settings, Focus, tap on the Focus concerned and tap Focus Status and then turn off Share Focus Status

Do it on all your Focus entities if you don't know which Focus is currently running.

Sadly this does not work... I'm a technical person, though new to apple iphone. I've gone through every setting I can find. Read a ton of different websites that offer this same advice. This advice/fix DOES NOT WORK. This has been an issue since 13... I mean my goodness. How long does an irritating bug need to exist before someone in development decides to fix it?

I am running the latest versions of iPad OS, Apple watch iOS and iPhone iOS and I have had notifications silenced on my iMessages for weeks now which is hyper annoying - I have zero focuses running and when I head into focus on my iPhone the only one there is Do Not Disturb which when i go into it there is no option to remove so I have disabled it.....Am I missing something as even if I go into Allowed Notifications and allow iMessages it still shows Silenced.....

The Share Focus is off too.

This is happening to me too! It’s a big and I am very tech savvy. I started a post of this in the community and like you, I continue to get the same instructions. I do not want to risk the reset on my phone. Apple needs to fix this!

You are completely adrift on that assumption. Focus was not there on iOS 13.

It does work, so start your own discussion with more detail about your problem which is obviously not the same.

Mine is doing the exact same thing! I cannot figure it out, and I'm tech-savvy!